. To California and back;. wild adventure, at cost of months of arduous traveland at hazard of life, not only because of humanfoes, but for scarcity of food and water. One neverappreciates the full stride of American progress untilhe has traversed such a Territory as this in a Pullmancar, where Valley of Death and Journey of the Deadare names still borne by waterless tracts and justifiedby bleached bones of cattle and of human from the centuries of horror and planted inthe front rank of young rising States by the geniusof our generation, New Mexico is a land of broadranges, wher
. To California and back;. wild adventure, at cost of months of arduous traveland at hazard of life, not only because of humanfoes, but for scarcity of food and water. One neverappreciates the full stride of American progress untilhe has traversed such a Territory as this in a Pullmancar, where Valley of Death and Journey of the Deadare names still borne by waterless tracts and justifiedby bleached bones of cattle and of human from the centuries of horror and planted inthe front rank of young rising States by the geniusof our generation, New Mexico is a land of broadranges, where hundreds of thousands of sleek cattleand countless flocks of sheep browse upon the nutri-tious grasses; where fields of grain wave in thehealthful breeze; where orchard-trees bend undertheir weight of luscious fruits, and where the rockslay bare inexhaustible veins of precious may be found to-day as profitable ranches asany in the country, and innumerable small aggrega-tions of cultivated acres, whose owners
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